Re: hot backup question

> At the point where the incomplete recovery is done, the act of
> doing the resetlogs, will actually recreate the missing online logs.

correct

"Scott Gamble" <zifnab_at_NOSPAM.reddragon.org> wrote in message news:7nMT7.38622$m8.8271_at_news.webusenet.com...
> "koert54" <koert54_at_nospam.com> wrote in
> <%fMT7.1273$9Y2.369224733_at_hestia.telenet-ops.be>:
>
> >You can not take your online redologs from tape as it is not possible to
> >make a consistent hot backup of them ...
> >
> >So to answer your question - you can do a restore/recovery to different
> >machine (with or without recreating the controlfile) but the recovery
> >will always be an incomplete one as you'll have to open the database
using
> >resetlogs to recreate your redologs...
> >
>
> Right that is the part I was missing.
>
> It is possible to do the recovery by applying the archived logs without
> actually having any online logs physically there.
>
> At the point where the incomplete recovery is done, the act of
> doing the resetlogs, will actually recreate the missing online logs.
>
> Is that correct? I had always assumed resetlogs needed to have
> the logs there already.
>
> Thanks for the clarification on that.
>
> Scott
>
Received on Tue Dec 18 2001 - 13:11:26 CST